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Thanks for all your support after the release of our first episode!! It has been very busy for all of us for the last month or so. I got a new job and took a couple of weeks off and had a week of training, Brian was busy managing a political campain and Ben was very busy playing WoW :). Needless to say it has been hard to find time to work on the second episode. However, we are almost done with the filming and should have a new episode released in the next couple of weeks. The general focus for the episode will be ipod, ipod, ipod and FC5.

Open Source enthusiasts take heart. We have had some delays, but the the filming is finished and only a few days of editing stands in the way of you and the first episode of the_source. We are shooting for a March 1st release date. The first episode will contain some news and discussion about the show in general, as well as an in-depth review and demo of QEMU. ...

After a few unsuccessfull attempts to install Linux on my iPod Nano, I now have it working without any issues. Check out ipodlinux.org for complete instructions. A good working knowledge of filesystems is helpful. This will have to be a segment in the first episode of the show. Try it today and impress all your friends at work when you show them Doom running on your tiny Nano.
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I got an IPod Nano last week. Yes, it rocks (literally). The first thing I tried was to load GeexBox on it. No luck ... yet :). I can confirm that all the stories about how easy it scratches are true. I think this is amplified by the fact that it's so small. When your display is only 1 inch x 1 inch the smallest scratch is going to look huge. Anyway, it was clear that I needed to have a case for it. I checked out the wares in some of the chain stores, but I couldn't find anything I liked for less than $40. After looking around online a bit I saw this on hackaday and I had to give it a try.
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